One for geeks…
Buddhist meditation
Seeds of Happiness and Sorrow, by Thich Nhat Hanh
It is certain that we have seeds of happiness, seeds of joy, of peace, of love, in us, but it may be that during our daily lives, nobody knows how to touch those seeds…
Study the Self! By Maezumi Roshi
Awakening is the very core of the Buddha’s teaching, but if we are thinking about awakening we are separating ourselves from it…
Crashed out Buddhas, by Ajahn Sumedho
All sensory objects satisfy us temporarily, but then we have to find something else to be absorbed into — to read, think, go to sleep, get drunk, take dope, have sex. It goes on and on, without reflection…
No Longer Foolish, by Shen Hui
Shen Hui answered, ‘”The absence of thought” is a method for the wise, but if the foolish were to cultivate it, they would no longer be foolish.’
Buddha is only a provisional name, by Harada Sekkei Roshi
No matter how much we think about the past, it isn’t possible to change it…
Intuitive Insight, by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
There is a word in Buddhism that covers this completely, the word sunnata, or emptiness, emptiness of selfhood, emptiness of any essence that we might have a right to cling to with all our might as being ‘mine’…
The Mind and its Weather by John Aske
Previously I had lacked the self-awareness to see a passing mood as ‘internal’ without absorbing into it or being absorbed in it, and saw it, for example, as ‘being depressed’…
Buddhism now 